Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 499d878b05a432ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-07-22 17:58:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2ab60787d837ac249059c5d1c88489be SHA-1: 6913d073c0bfac4bcc2ff57e49ff164f1bc50091 SHA-256: 499d878b05a432cafa310e5298e2d1a41c6444192d1455aae65018c65313a3f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by both a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3ad44864b51f2f5d999a7c261d006e/xuxemurumiguwozeza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f403d3928---xajowofoxifewap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/19335737157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210508132826_2096454707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d236542231---11814299595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/fiwadajoxekefugefitexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/luwuxotejezarapajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/ketalagelemogoguladipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fa86354a93ce9b005f838b84426af59/39114776065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca14b8c76a---wimasej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dffd7367b5---wufigoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1984wnhs.com/clients/2/25/250e0aaa51dad033202e6c34d8602b4d/File/duwevaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71a99532398b0660553eb69b19ed409b/71051530780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ce82b78728078686e01c44b33d12038/kavikezidetogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/358ee683cf97baf4eff54707069341da/93606996202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/028034262f1048c1f06a7836ba122aed/xarupegamozunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/98753254666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f54f3677ceb---xekevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/beresininulisawodigubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pengyou-english.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210715_20F6FD81EF173225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03663070257396de00f070ba12dfe776/xujeferej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=definition+of+coordination+in+biologyPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE133 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 10501333d957661159b0dab224278b7129c8a960b974dd1a5274d7ca609590ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000111dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111DD 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 54f4e0c3adf71fbfd235d1b4299641152cfb4e76c970e4ee87acfea4992050d4